Turtle shell weave

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Shizukuishi

Main production area

Shizukuishi

Overview

We make yarn from cultivation of hemp as raw material, dye the plants of persimmon stone and dye it (plant dyeing), and weave the turtle cocoon with a single-stage one-stage machine to make a product. Tortoise shell weave is a fabric that brings out the vivid hexagonal tortoise pattern while entangleing the warp (weft) with the weft.

History / History

Originally considered to be a dedication to the southern area, it is said that the samurai used it regularly. The common people wore to sweat in the wild clothes. The late Kato Kiwa in the town in 1968 (Showa 43) and Mitsue Kato, the first president of the Shisui Shima meeting, remembered after 50 years based on the woven weave of turtle shell woven by Kiwa during her daughterhood. It is a woven fabric that is made by putting together yarns of Ms. Mitsue recruited friends in 1983 if he could not eliminate this technology, and in 1985 he established the Kame Koori Study Group in the Farmer's University, and the Rural Women's Life Improvement Group It was positioned as a part. In 1986 (Showa 61), the cultivation of raw materials Hemp and Karamushi was to be reproduced, with a focus on Mr. Kato who has experience in cultivation. Renamed “Shishikuishi Asakai” in April 1988 and handed down old-fashioned techniques to the present.